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In Praise of Press Releases - A Frank Discussion on Form And Function
There is no disputing the power of a well-written, newsworthy press release. In fact, it is one of the single best things you can do for your business.
Horton Hears an Opportunity - What Dr Seuss' Beloved Character Can Teach Us About Marketing
One of the most common challenges that small business owners face is the lack of funds to properly promote themselves. One way to stretch those promotional dollars is to focus on leveraging creative marketing opportunities. Discover how to develop a keen marketing ear by following the lead of Dr. Seuss' beloved character, Horton the elephant.
How to Propel Your Invention, Startup or New Business with Publicity
There’s ONE thing that propels most business. What is it? Publicity-PR! It’s the one common theme that runs through the history of all great companies. Publicist Scott Lorenz says, “If you want to get your company on the radar then put PR in your plan.”
3 Secrets to Overcoming Your Fear of Self-Promotion
Learning to promote yourself in your business is a huge stumbling block for many online business owners. Many highly qualified and very smart workers are passed over every day for promotions they deserve because they haven't figured out how to promote themselves within their own company. This fear of self-promotion follows many service business owners into the self-employment world, as well. Here are 3 tips to help you overcome your fear of self-promotion:
How To Publicize A Start-Up Business
If you are starting a new business, regardless of whether you are selling a product or service, getting publicity may seem like a daunting endeavor. It doesn't have to be. By using the right strategies and mindset, you can get exposure for your start-up and look as experienced and established as competitors that have been around for decades.
Why You Must Keep Marketing Through The Recession
Worried about the recession? Then ramp up your promotional efforts and vow: “I am not going to participate in this recession.”
Avoidale Mistakes Made By Sales Leaders
Sales reps must be managed effectively. Sales leaders have to understand their reps’ capabilities in order to place them in an ideal sales environment where they can have a positive impact on the company and sales results. Sales leaders who can successfully identify their reps capabilities will be able to utilize their talents in the proper context. This will create a more efficient sales team while working within the context of their sales skills.
Style, Grammar, Spelling and All That Other Fun Stuff
Remember, content is just one part of your release. The form, look, and style is every bit as important.

How to Use PR to Launch Your Independent Film
The film world has been going through seismic changes. The studios are creating urgency through marketing that all but forces the public to consume. So, why not take a page from their playbook? You can’t compete with them budget-wise, but you can jump into the game with creativity, savvy and some marketing know-how. PR can help build an audience, attract investors, interest distributors and position you and your film to succeed.

PR Strategy Key to Integrating Face-to-face & Online Networking
Networking is a perfect example of how a good PR strategy can keep working for you. It’s not about face-to-face or online networking; it’s about integration and how to use one to enhance the other.
Money Ain’t the Only Motivator
What can you do to retain your best employees when money isn't available? Is encouragement enough in a down market?
Creating Buzz for Your iPhone App with Social Media
Any iPhone app developer who want to market their iPhone App must spend some time on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Linked-In, iTunes and similar social networks to spread the word and generate sales. Here are some tips to help focus and inspire iPhone app developers and marketers.
Use an Internet Marketing Program
Everyone who wishes to promote something online needs an internet marketing program. This will allow it to be effectively seen and made available around the world. The possibilities will become limitless and good advertising is a must, without that you may as well not even try.
Sweating the Wrong Stuff
Whatever it is - if we choose to focus on something that is known, comfortable and in our control, even as other things are crying for our attention - well, we're sweating the wrong stuff. And that's a great big Gravity No No.
Four Secrets to Selling Books
What’s the secret to selling books? John Kremer knows more than 1001 tips which he has documented in his must-read book, “1001 Ways to market Your Books For Authors and Publishers.” Here are five tips he shared at the 21st Century Book Marketing Conference in San Diego recently.
Writing a Book? Here Are Some Things To Consider About Marketing It
You thought writing a book was hard? Wait, the much harder part comes when it's time to market it, so you want to make sure you've got a good book publicist who knows what to do. Here are some marketing tips for making your book a best seller.
A Year’s Worth of Holiday Promotions for Your Business
Grab your customers' attention with creative promotions that tie into 12 months worth of holidays and celebrations. There is a special day everyday and one for everyone.
How to Operate the Back Office of Your Main Street Business on a Budget
A good business operates on a budget so that it pays and pays, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz? Read this short post to learn about an array of back office tools and services so you can operate your Main Street business on a budget.

It's not about who you know...
For years smart people have been saying "It's not about what you know, it's about WHO you know!" Well, I'm here to disagree. I know lots of people that have absolutely no value to my business. How much is my favorite grocery clerk going to help my business? What about the lawn service that cuts my grass, or the staff at the local Kinko's? Yeah, I know, they MIGHT be able to make a referral some day. And the worlds is going to be destroyed by a global nuclear war. And I'm not waiting around for either. Personally, I don't think who you know is nearly as important as who knows you. If you want to make change happen and move mountains of bureaucratic crap that make us all a bit crazy, making sure others know you is where you need to focus.

22 Ways to Promote Your iPhone App
Do you have an iPhone App? With more than 300,000 apps in the marketplace, simply relying on word of mouth is not enough, you need to get the attention of the news media. How? My solution is to seek publicity to help get the word of mouth going which will then lead to those highly sought after downloads. Here’s a list of 22 tips I’ve compiled on how to promote your iPhone App.

Predictions for Digital Advertising in 2011
As consumer use of social media spiked in 2010, enter the Big 3 with retooled advertising features, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post to learn the key Digital Advertising predictions for 2011 as Web 2.0 is providing more consumer touch points to improve the targeting and relevance of online advertising for your Main Street business.
25 Tips For Getting More Traffic to a Site
This article contains 25 tips that will help you drive more traffic to your website.
Online Marketing And Lead Generation Tips For Business Owners And Professionals
Finding new customers and generating leads online is something professionals and small business owners can do for themselves. Here’s how.
Business Blog Step 12 - Promotion Using Methods Specific to Blogs
Once we have a Business Blog that has sufficient content on it and is working well, then we clearly will want to spread the word as widely as possible that it exists, that is to say promote the Blog and its content to the relevant target people and beyond.

Business Blog Step 13 - More Promotion Using Methods Specific to Blogs
Further to the earlier article on blog promotion here are some more ideas specific to blogs:
Business Blog Step 14 - General Online Methods of Marketing/Promoting your Blog
Here are some methods of promotion which can be applied to any type of website:

The key to utilizing any progressive medium for marketing purposes is creating goals and identifying your target demographic
We are finding that professional speakers, as well as businesses, benefit from subject based video clips, in addition to a full blown demonstration video.
Three Secrets to Getting a Promotion
No matter what type of industry you work in, no matter what level of position you currently hold, if you want to move up to a more fulfilling position with more pay and opportunity, there are three things you can do right now to grow your career.
Does Brand Strategy Take The Freedom Out Of Running Your Business?
Entrepreneurs are really concerned whether this whole “brand strategy” thing will take away their freedom to run their business the way they want to, to have the life they want to have – or to react to what’s going on in the world and make changes.
Handling Change in the Workplace: Logical versus Emotional Reactions
People need time and support to adjust both logically and emotionally to change. This article explains how change can impact on staff and provides keys to help them adapt and settle into the new environment. Change can be positive if handled well or a recipe for disaster if handled poorly. Through the use of a case study, the pitfalls and negative impacts are discussed; then follows some pointers for managing change in the workplace and a practical method for accepting change on a more personal level.
Let me handle that brain surgery you need
A few days ago I received a note from a friend who is now in the "social media business." Unfortunately, that has become one of those glamorous sounding careers that has no agreed upon qualifications. Part of her proposed service would be to write blogs for me. Just a note – while many people have ghostwriters for their blogs I have never entertained the idea.
IS BIGGER BETTER IN PR?
Is it smart to hire the biggest PR firm you can find to promote your company or should you look at smaller fims as well. A veteran public relations professionals offers some insizeful advice.
Being An Invisible Business Isn't An Option-Gain Huge Visiblity For Your Business
Marketing and Advertising is one way to gain visibility if you have a big budget but what about free publicity through the media, social networking and guest blogging.

The Problems with Change Projects
It was recently reported by HR Magazine, that “Barely a tenth of change projects seen as fully successful, according to Moorhouse study” In as much as change as for quite some time been very much a part of corporate live, the findings of the report are sadly unsurprising. The real surprise is that it is reported as news. From a Machiavellian viewport, “There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions, and merely lukewarm defenders in those who should gain by the new one”.
Affiliate Marketing: A Win-Win Situation
Why are hundreds and thousands of entrepreneurs setting up online businesses? There are several reasons for this phenomenal trend. Foremost among the reasons is that the Internet opens up an easier access to a wider market.

Publicity and Promotion
Before you set out to plan a media relations campaign, you need to know what media your target audiences are interested in and reading.

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Business Management May Turn Super Workers into Super Failures
Promotion from within is what many companies desire and what many employees strive to reach. However, are the skills being recognized the skills needed within that promotion? Read how you may be creating super failures out of your super workers.
Email Etiquette - Is the Money Really in the List?
There's so many email subscriptions I have for different marketers. I read some, but not all. One thing I notice a lot is that there seems to be too much promotion and not enough information. I like to get information and learn new things on how to build and grow my business. I don't want to be sold to every time I read their emails. There needs to be a balance of information and promotion when you send out your newsletter to your list of subscribers.
Easy ways to promote your website
Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?

Are your self-promotion tactics ethical or not?
Today it's not uncommon for some people to stretch the truth in order to get a job, get a sale, get ahead or just get noticed, but this behaviour raises some important issues about the good, the bad and the ugly of self-promotion... Proactive self promotion is essential in sales today because good work does not speak for itself anymore - You DO. So are your self-promotion tactics ethical or not?
Trade Show Tidbits
Instead of a brochure, hand out a one-page fact sheet. Do a pre-show promotion because 33% of people attending a show do so because of a promotion.
Website promotion for online marketing strategies
A good website promotion can provide the business domain the right exposure to the individuals particularly those who are looking for what the website offers. As part of the online marketing strategies, web promotion seeks more visibility on the popular search engines.
Top Five Ways Writing Articles Can Explode Your Internet Business
Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult. Fortunately, there is plethora of website promotion strategies you can use to drive traffic to your website.There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective.
5 Latest Traffic Promotion Trends To Drive Targeted Website Traffic
Traffic promotion is no longer what it used to be. But the latest trends of internet marketing promotion will benefit you greatly and add additional money in your back pocket. If you are serious about online success, these 5 hot traffic promotion tips are absolutely essential to get targeted web traffic to your website. The golden rule remains the same, "Content is king and keywords are queen.". You will benefit massively by using these hot traffic promotion techniques
Successful People Use Tough Times to Position Themselves for Better Things to Come
Successful people don't let the current economic situation derail their promotion plans. They spring into action to get the promotion they want and deserve. If you want to get a promotion in these times, begin by upping the ante when it comes to your performance. Put more time and effort into your current job. Go from good to great. Build your brand and your network within your company. Take a lateral move. Volunteer for tough assignments. Most of all commit to taking personal responsibility for your life and career.
3 Secrets to Overcoming Your Fear of Self-Promotion
Learning to promote yourself in your business is a huge stumbling block for many online business owners. Many highly qualified and very smart workers are passed over every day for promotions they deserve because they haven't figured out how to promote themselves within their own company. This fear of self-promotion follows many service business owners into the self-employment world, as well. Here are 3 tips to help you overcome your fear of self-promotion:
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